Haven’t subscribed to the paper (Columbus Dispatch- which I carried as a boy) since 2003 or so. Our son was home from his first tour of duty in Iraq w/ Army Reserves (which, in my day, was a weekend/mth, 2 wks every summer).
First morning home he picked up the paper and read on first page the a few Marines had been killed the day before. …
Haven’t subscribed to the paper (Columbus Dispatch- which I carried as a boy) since 2003 or so. Our son was home from his first tour of duty in Iraq w/ Army Reserves (which, in my day, was a weekend/mth, 2 wks every summer).
First morning home he picked up the paper and read on first page the a few Marines had been killed the day before. He said, “Damn, if we had to read this shit every day, we’d never leave the compound.”
It was the same with Vietnam, at least on the evening news.
Haven’t subscribed to the paper (Columbus Dispatch- which I carried as a boy) since 2003 or so. Our son was home from his first tour of duty in Iraq w/ Army Reserves (which, in my day, was a weekend/mth, 2 wks every summer).
First morning home he picked up the paper and read on first page the a few Marines had been killed the day before. He said, “Damn, if we had to read this shit every day, we’d never leave the compound.”
It was the same with Vietnam, at least on the evening news.
Wasn’t that way when last we actually won a war.